Sentence examples for discretionary guidelines from inspiring English sources

The question that divided the justices on Monday was whether the current discretionary guidelines retained enough force to subject defendants to a substantial risk of additional punishment and thus violate the Constitution's ex post facto clause, which prohibits enhanced retroactive punishment.

Martinez is one of a group of "DREAM activists" with the National Immigrant Youth Alliance who have infiltrated the Broward Transitional Center and found dozens of immigrants who should be released under Obama's discretionary guidelines.

It did instruct the United States Sentencing Commission to act quickly to revise its discretionary sentencing guidelines to reflect the new ratios.

Since the Artic does not have a unified set of environmental policies, the AECO published a discretionary set of guidelines for visitors and operators that are aimed at protecting the environment, ensuring safety and promoting cultural sensitivity and social interaction with locals.

"Those guidelines are discretionary, although judges typically follow them," Wilkinson told VICE.

The determination that GE crops are "substantially equivalent" to their conventionally grown or bred counterparts is a completely voluntary and discretionary 20-year old internal guideline.

But the guidelines have always been discretionary.

According to the guidelines of the prosecutorial discretionary announcement that President Obama announced in June 2011, Martinez says, they do not belong in the detention center.

The other is to bypass the guidelines entirely and revert to completely discretionary sentencing, constrained only by the broad minimums and maximums in criminal statutes.

John Mehrzad, a sports law barrister at Littleton Chambers, said: "Coming from a barrister's perspective, the wording in the guidelines is not binding, it's discretionary.

A 2009 American Heart Association scientific statement titled "Dietary Sugars Intake and Cardiovascular Health" (1) concluded that current intake of added sugars among Americans greatly exceeds discretionary calorie allowances based on the 2005 U.S. Dietary Guidelines (2).